building
part of speech
noun (a building, buildings); verb form (-ing form of «build»)
meaning for a pupil
1) A structure with walls and a roof, such as a house, school, shop or church. tree →
2) The work of making houses and other structures: «building is hard work». tree →
3) (verb form) Making something by putting parts together: «we are building a den». tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and safety: know the way out of a building, fire exits, and what to do in a fire drill. In maths, buildings appear in problems about floors, heights and shapes. In history, old buildings like castles tell us how people lived. Phrases: «a tall building», «leave the building», «building site», «building blocks».
examples
- Our school is a big brick building. tree →
- The tallest building in town has twenty floors. tree →
- In a fire drill, we leave the building quietly. tree →
- We are building a tower with blocks. tree →
- Keep out of building sites; they are dangerous. tree →
- The library is the oldest building on our street. tree →
- The building has 6 floors with 4 flats on each, so 24 flats in all. tree →
- The building is the Warton Almshouse. tree →
note
As a noun it is countable: a building, buildings. It is also the -ing form of «build» (build, built, building). «Building blocks» are toys, and also means the basic parts of something.
In the corpora
- Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned.
- People must ask the council for planning permission before building something big, and neighbours can object.
- One event is often shown many times on different channels and phones; ten showings of a bombed building are still one building.
- The answer is worked out on huge computers far away, in buildings called data centres; nobody is typing it.
- It was reported that fake AI pictures of an explosion near a famous building spread online and briefly worried people.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «building» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.